The city of Hoover opened this playground next to Shades Mountain Elementary School in 2008. It also is designed to accommodate children with disabilities. (Tamika Moore/tmoore@al.com)

HOOVER, Alabama - The Hoover Parks and Recreation Foundation is organizing a golf tournament to raise money to help build a playground that can accommodate children with disabilities at Hoover Sports Park East.

The golf tournament is scheduled for Oct. 15 at Pine Tree Country Club off Grants Mill Road. The format will be a four-person scramble, with a shotgun start at 8 a.m.

The cost is $125 per golfer and includes the cost of breakfast and lunch. Holes can be sponsored for $150, or a business can pay $600 to pay for four players and sponsor a hole.

The tournament will include competitions for the longest drive, straightest drive, longest putt and shot closest to the pin. There will be a $10,000 prize for a hole in one on a particular hole. Another prize to be given away is two rounds of golf and a two-night stay at the Lodge at Sea Island on St. Simon's Island off the coast of Georgia. Several other rounds of golf will be given away as well.

Anyone who registers prior to Oct. 1 will be entered into a "special drawing."

Pate last month estimated such a playground would cost about $160,000.

Richard Reiss, vice president for the Hoover Parks and Recreation Foundation, said the foundation wants to help with the project, particularly because the Miracle League field construction went over budget.

To register for the golf tournament or for more information, contact Dee Nance at 444-7765 or email her at nanced@ci.hoover.al.us.